Sentences with phrase «by floodwaters for»

Always take photos of items damaged by floodwaters for insurance purposes.

Not exact matches

My concern with myth has been motivated, in fact, by the realization that analogy as employed in metaphysics appears unable to hold back the floodwaters of rationalism, once the tenuous «appeal for an imaginative leap» gives way to a more definitive mood of logical analysis.

They had been trapped in their house in New Orleans for two weeks by 10 feet of floodwater.

But because Jebel Barkal is a lone mountain, isolated from other buttes in the area and sometimes nearly engulfed by the Nile's floodwaters, the priests may also have seen it as the perfect metaphor for the primeval mound: the island where Amun pulled himself out of the waters of the Abyss and created the first gods by masturbating.

COLLEGE STATION — The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and others are collaborating to offer another set of free water testing opportunities Feb. 14 - 15 for private well owners in areas affected by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey.

When feed needs can not be met via vehicle or boat for animals marooned by floodwaters, the Texas Army National Guard has flown in and air dropped more than 210,000 pounds of hay, generously donated by individuals across the state and nation.

The goal: rescue all 21 available dogs and 31 cats from the shelter to make room for an anticipated flow of additional animals that would be displaced by the storm's floodwaters.

Heartworm disease is transmitted by mosquitos — stagnant receding floodwaters will provide excellent breeding ground for that vector.

At Clearing, Ryan Foerster eschews his usual all - over-the-place installations for a neat row of photographs, the better to emphasize the entropy within the images: They are portraits that turned abstract when hit by Hurricane Sandy's floodwaters at Mr. Foerster's Brighton Beach studio.

But the house — and every other structure along the floodway that was surrounded by water — raised the overall flood height and disrupted the flow of floodwaters, said Lulloff, chief scientist for the flood plain managers association.

He noted how Bangladesh had seen its mortality rates from flooding drop sharply since the 1970's, mainly by adopting simple means of getting people to higher ground, some as basic as installing high platforms for people to climb above the floodwaters.

The last two decades have seen a progressive policy shift towards programs to give «room for rivers» (Rohde et al. 2006; Opperman et al. 2009), aimed to increase the storage space of rivers by restoring floodplains and thus reducing the flood depth by spreading floodwaters over wider areas.

If the damage is caused by both rainwater and flood then you may still be able to get your claim paid where, for example, the rainwater entered your house first or the damage was caused by rainwater coming through a hole in the roof (even if floodwater entered the house as well).